This unit provides a wonderful opportunity to teach children grades 1-5 the necessary concepts and vocabulary in order to be successful with measuring capacity and volume. These lessons are hands-on, rich in vocabulary and have various levels of focus questions. Each lessons includes learning targ

This is a very fun, holiday themed activity. You can use any size Gingerbread Man you'd like based on ability and age. This sheet has a list of fun food items and the child practices measuring the perimeter and area of the gingerbread man. There is a column for estimation and results. This is a grea

This resource was created in response to a student inquiry. An Aboriginal educator showed my students deer and moose leather gloves and we started a conversation about its water-repellent property (and compared it to cotton gloves - which get soggy). This connects to the Ontario Grade 1 Science curr

This data sheet is for use with finding data on pumpkins. We used several different pumpkins and then compared the data using the data sheets. The data sheet includes measuring with non-standard items as well as reviewing adjectives, color words, and number skills. I hope this data sheet helps yo

Learn the scientific method with this fun botany investigation. This activity integrates counting with science. This is a great introductory activity for learning about flowers, pollination, and fruits. Also great for the 100th day of school.
Students will use the scientific method to answer the

This product is an edible lab using bags of Skittles, ratios and proportional reasoning. It includes the lab and directions and an Excel document to use to determine student accuracy. The product is by Mathink.

This is a group activity for students to practice ratios and proportions as well as measurement skills. They will take turns measuring each group member's height, shoe length, and shadow length. They will graph height vs. shoe length and height vs. shadow length to determine which relationship is

In this lab, students work through 12 stations. At each station, there are 2 similar figures. Students must find the length of a missing side on one of the shapes. Also included is a student worksheet on which students must write a proportion for each problem.

This record sheet will help your students gather raw data in the form of heads or tails. Use this data to look for patterns and then add up the class data to compare to. Discussion topics include percentages, chance, and cause/effect relationships.

This 5 week unit was developed to help students in grades K-5 better understand the basic concepts of measuring length in order to be successful at their grade level Common Core State Standards CCSS. This unit includes rich vocabulary and a hands-on learning experience (lab style) that will help dev

Students work in groups to record observations including size of pumpkin and properties of the pumpkin. They then open up their pumpkin and count the seeds as a collection. Counting collections is POWERFUL.

Students are given a number line to put together and about 30 integers to place on it. This activity is to see students prior knowledge. Before any gluing takes place have a quick discussion and monitor student work to make sure all integers are in their correct location.
Afterwards, I had students

This is a task rotation for my intro chapter to 8th grade math. I do a combination of fractions and geometry formulas. Give each station roughly 10 minutes to work on each problem. For station 3 it might help to pre tape the two cylinders to cut down on that time for students and to give them mor

Place one penny on the first square of a chess board, two on the second square, four on the third square, eight of the fourth square and so on. How many pennies do you have by square 12? square 20? square 64? or all 64 squares in total? Let our cartoon characters show you the math behind the puzzle.

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This is a fun lesson that takes between 90-120 minutes. I have 45 minute periods and with my 6th graders in a class of 24, we were

This lab is great to use as reinforcement to newly learned lessons, or it can be used as a semester review! Honestly, this is one of my favorites!* Working with a partner, students use balloons to measure the volume of a single breath of air and apply their calculations to determine (mathematically